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congressman paul ryan joins the romney ticket. we look at what choosing ryan, the powerful house budget committee chairman does for mitt romney's presidential chances. and an update on the 2012 drought: what is the federal government doing now to help farmers. that and more tonight on "n.b.r."! >> susie: the economic agenda of mitt romney and paul ryan was "topic a", across the country today. presidential candidate romney, and his new vice presidential pick, hit the road today to talk to voters about their economic plan. ryan was stumping in iowa, his first event alone. and romney was in florida, continuing his bus tour of swing states. voters, and investors are trying to figure out what this new ticket means for the economy, and their investments. washington bureau chief darren gersh reports. >> reporter: for investment pros, analyzing what paul ryan could mean for markets is two- step process: first, will he help romney win? he has clearly energized conservative voters and may help put wisconsin into romney's column, but his pla
congressman paul ryan joins the romney ticket. we look at what choosing ryan, the powerful house budget committee chairman does for mitt romney's presidential chances. and an update on the 2012 drought: what is the federal government doing now to help farmers. that and more tonight on "n.b.r."! >> susie: the economic agenda of mitt romney and paul ryan was "topic a", across the country today. presidential candidate romney, and his new vice presidential pick, hit the...
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the romney/ryan plan, is it politically unpopular? he has to bring that up. >> woodruff: how do you see it, mark? >> i would say with paul ryan, he's got to keep it going. the republicans are on a roll right now, they feel they're on a roll. but he should heed the council of robert frost to john kennedy who said be more boston and less harvard. i would say be more wisconsin more walk shaw than washington, d.c. he cannot give in words his powerpoint if he mentions sequestration oncetor committee as a whole or the motion to recommit eyes will glaze over he's got to stay on offense but at the same time he has to par tri differences between him and governor romney and especially changes that governor romney -- several incarnations that have gone to is going to parry that, not to get into the weeds but parry it. as far as joe biden, i think he's got a tougher but in many ways more simple. he's got to lift the spirits of the spirited -- dispirited democrats. i think he f he does that -- he is the happy warrior, very much so. a lot more so t
the romney/ryan plan, is it politically unpopular? he has to bring that up. >> woodruff: how do you see it, mark? >> i would say with paul ryan, he's got to keep it going. the republicans are on a roll right now, they feel they're on a roll. but he should heed the council of robert frost to john kennedy who said be more boston and less harvard. i would say be more wisconsin more walk shaw than washington, d.c. he cannot give in words his powerpoint if he mentions sequestration...
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less than a third support the plan backed by romney and ryan even though romney asserts he has no plans to change the medicare program for current seniors. right now, the federal government is required to help pay for each medical service used by medicare enrollees with no limits. but those costs are rising and the medicare trust fund will be insolvent in 2024. as house budget chair, ryan passed a plan that would increase the eligibility age gradually from 65 to 67 by 2034 and cap spending increases for medicare at just above the growth rate of the economy. the biggest change: when future beneficiaries-- those currently under 55-- become eligible for medicare, they will receive a set annual amount of money from the government to purchase private insurance or join the traditional government plan. vice president biden lambasted those ideas. and president obama called the plan an end to medicare as we know it, as he told voters in iowa last week. >> they want to turn medicare into a voucher program. that means seniors would no longer have the guarantee of medicare; they'd get a voucher to
less than a third support the plan backed by romney and ryan even though romney asserts he has no plans to change the medicare program for current seniors. right now, the federal government is required to help pay for each medical service used by medicare enrollees with no limits. but those costs are rising and the medicare trust fund will be insolvent in 2024. as house budget chair, ryan passed a plan that would increase the eligibility age gradually from 65 to 67 by 2034 and cap spending...
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have to do more explaining and in the first hour he did a better job hitting at romney than ryan did hitting at obama. i think ryan, though, was, came across as ernest, knowledgeable and polite, whereas especially in that first hour, joe biden was clearly playing by cable debate rules, which is interrupt and talk over your opponent at will. i think al is right that is going to enthuse democrats. i am not sure how it is going to play with undecided voters. me personally and i am not an undecided veert it came across as off putting, obnoxious and rude and i can guarantee that on the shows tomorrow morning and in the cable discussion going forward, tomorrow and into the weekend the biden smiles and the biden smirks and the biden interruptions will be a juicy topic for discussion. >> rose: mark hall snrin. >> halperin? >> well, i am mostly going to paraphrase what rich lowry just said, there are two things that clearly come out of this, one is the detrimentally base is going to be pleased that they thought, saw the somebody fighting on their behalf and being aggressive on a lot of big is
have to do more explaining and in the first hour he did a better job hitting at romney than ryan did hitting at obama. i think ryan, though, was, came across as ernest, knowledgeable and polite, whereas especially in that first hour, joe biden was clearly playing by cable debate rules, which is interrupt and talk over your opponent at will. i think al is right that is going to enthuse democrats. i am not sure how it is going to play with undecided voters. me personally and i am not an undecided...
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the romney/ryan ticket is absolutely maizing. everybody will leave excited and wound up through november 6. >> brown: one of the big questions, of course, has been whether and how mitt romney connects with people. the polls suggest that he's still having some trouble. why do you think that is and what does he have to do? >> i think he's the new nominee. i think it's time for america to learn who mitt romney is. and we're starting tonight with ann romney coming out on stage telling the personal story about who she is, how they met, how... what a really caring person he is. i've heard that story. i've heard her talk about when she was diagnosed with m.s. and how devastating that was and he said to her-- and i'm not going to tell it because i hope she tells it later, if not you come back to me and i will because it's such a touching story that he would be there for her regardless of what happened and how much he cares about her job. her job being the mother of those five incredible boys. >> brown: i can't help before i let you go no
the romney/ryan ticket is absolutely maizing. everybody will leave excited and wound up through november 6. >> brown: one of the big questions, of course, has been whether and how mitt romney connects with people. the polls suggest that he's still having some trouble. why do you think that is and what does he have to do? >> i think he's the new nominee. i think it's time for america to learn who mitt romney is. and we're starting tonight with ann romney coming out on stage telling...
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obama-biden if they're re-elected, romney-ryan if they are elected. but my job will be strictly to engage on those stark differences. so the... although this is being done for the voters. this isn't a television program. these are not people out there watching for ratings. these are people who are deciding for whom to vote for president of the united states. my job is strictly to help the candidates, help the candidates explain in a way that the voters understand what the choices really are. >> brown: help the candidates do that. >> yes. the candidates need to be able to explain it. need to be able to explain their positions. but it's in a way that is understandable and that is... there's enough time there for the moderator in the case of the first debate which i'll be moderating, time for me to kind of probe and ask follow-ups and try to get them to engage in all of that. remember it's being done for the voters. that's it. that's what it's all about. >> brown: we talk all the time these days about doing politics, doing the news media in the age of so
obama-biden if they're re-elected, romney-ryan if they are elected. but my job will be strictly to engage on those stark differences. so the... although this is being done for the voters. this isn't a television program. these are not people out there watching for ratings. these are people who are deciding for whom to vote for president of the united states. my job is strictly to help the candidates, help the candidates explain in a way that the voters understand what the choices really are....
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and paul ryan, i mean, i know were talking about romney, but paul ryan said something last night that - he said, you know, that obama enacted this thing nobody asked for it. nobody wanted it. well, obama ran on health care. he said this is what i want to do. this is what im offering to you. and we elected him. >> suarez: what are the major issues for you as you make up your minds in the next couple of weeks, ben? >> i think really for me, i was a little disappointed that he sort of education, he mentioned it for about a sentence. i would have liked to have seen that a little bit more. this might entirely be because my mother is a teacher and im a college student, but, i mean, really feel that education is probably one of the most important things that our government can do for us. >> what he needed to do - what he could have done that would have been, i think, very helpful for me, is to tell me how your business experience translates into being the chief executive of our country and developing jobs for our economy. and maybe you cant do it in a 30-minute speech, maybe that's the probl
and paul ryan, i mean, i know were talking about romney, but paul ryan said something last night that - he said, you know, that obama enacted this thing nobody asked for it. nobody wanted it. well, obama ran on health care. he said this is what i want to do. this is what im offering to you. and we elected him. >> suarez: what are the major issues for you as you make up your minds in the next couple of weeks, ben? >> i think really for me, i was a little disappointed that he sort of...
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now it's romney-ryan, or is it ryan-romney? either way, their theory has been tested. it failed. our economy failed. the middle class paid the price. your family paid the price. mitt romney just doesn't get it. ( cheers and applause ). but barack obama gets it. ( cheering ) he understands that when we invest in people, we're investing in our shared prosperity. and when we neglect that responsibility, we risk our promise as a nation. just a few years ago, families that had never asked for anything found themselves at risk of losing everything. and the dream my grandmother held, that work would be rewarded, that the middle class would be there, if not for her, then for her children, that dream was being crushed. but then president obama took office and he took action. when detroit was in trouble, president obama saved the auto industry and saved a million jobs. ( cheering ) seven presidents before him, republicans and democrats, tried to expand health care to all americans. president obama got it done. ( cheering ) he made a historic investment to lift our nation's public schools a
now it's romney-ryan, or is it ryan-romney? either way, their theory has been tested. it failed. our economy failed. the middle class paid the price. your family paid the price. mitt romney just doesn't get it. ( cheers and applause ). but barack obama gets it. ( cheering ) he understands that when we invest in people, we're investing in our shared prosperity. and when we neglect that responsibility, we risk our promise as a nation. just a few years ago, families that had never asked for...
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how does the romney-ryan ticket win your home state? >> well, it is very much about jobs and the economy in virginia. virginia is particularly susceptible to the president's defense cuts. as you know, as a result of the failure of the super committee in congress last year, these defense cuts are going to go into effect at the end of this year. >> woodruff: but wasn't that a result of both sides not coming together, sequestration? >> judy, i think what we've done in the house and we've gone ahead and passed a substitution for these kind of defense yuts cut, about the yet there's been no response by the president. we feel very strongly that, number one, we do have to defend our country, and these cuts are going to cut to the core an ability for to us effect that mission. but also in virginia, and gwen, you ask about virginia, we are disproportionately dependent on defense dollars. in fact, 9% of the employment in the region of hampton roads, virginia beach, is dependent on d.o.d. dollars up and think about the area up around washington an
how does the romney-ryan ticket win your home state? >> well, it is very much about jobs and the economy in virginia. virginia is particularly susceptible to the president's defense cuts. as you know, as a result of the failure of the super committee in congress last year, these defense cuts are going to go into effect at the end of this year. >> woodruff: but wasn't that a result of both sides not coming together, sequestration? >> judy, i think what we've done in the house...
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idea lodge, ballast of the romney ryan ticket. and the democrats, obama and biden are going to talk about ryan for the next two months. the only point of actual direct engagement with paul ryan will be that night on that debate stage. and will it change the election? who knows but a lot of people will pay attention to it. so the pressure on bidesen extraordinarily high which goes back to the original point of why they picked ryan. because now ryan at least has a shot of changing the dynamic a little bit in that debate. i don't think as john was saying that a portman-biden debate would have done that. >> rose: go ahead. >> no, no, i'm great. >> rose: all right. i want to make this point. there are a lot of people, in terms-- and they always ought to be made in politics t is what the people are going to vote say rather than people like us or people who write think and maggie-- having said that you have neil ferguson saying he went to this meeting on the cover story in "newsweek", saying he went to this meeting and said to himself pa
idea lodge, ballast of the romney ryan ticket. and the democrats, obama and biden are going to talk about ryan for the next two months. the only point of actual direct engagement with paul ryan will be that night on that debate stage. and will it change the election? who knows but a lot of people will pay attention to it. so the pressure on bidesen extraordinarily high which goes back to the original point of why they picked ryan. because now ryan at least has a shot of changing the dynamic a...
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now they are trying to blame its romney-ryan particular for making this an issue. with respect to iraq, we had the same position before the withdrawal which was, we agreed with the obama administration. let's have a agreement to make sure we secure our game. the vice president was put in charge of those negotiations by president obama. and they failed to get the agreement. we don't have a force as agreement because they failed to get one. that is what we are talking about. and when it comes to our veterans, we owe them a great debt of gratitude. for what they've done for us. including your son, beau, but we also want to make sure we don't lose the things we fought so hard to get. and with respect to afghan tan, the 2014 deadline, we agreed with the 2014 transition am but what we also want to do is make sure we're not protect ing weakness abroad. and that's what is happening here. this benghazi issue would be a tragedy in and of itself. but unfortunately, it's indicative of a broader problem. and that is what we are watching on our tv screens is the unraveling of th
now they are trying to blame its romney-ryan particular for making this an issue. with respect to iraq, we had the same position before the withdrawal which was, we agreed with the obama administration. let's have a agreement to make sure we secure our game. the vice president was put in charge of those negotiations by president obama. and they failed to get the agreement. we don't have a force as agreement because they failed to get one. that is what we are talking about. and when it comes to...
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debate, i don't think there's any doubt that congressman ryan and i, governor romney and the president, we have a fundamentally different vision for america. and quite frankly a fundamentally different value set. >> woodruff: democrats had been down after president obama's performance last week, but the vice-president aggressively challenged every point ryan made, prompting this exchange. >> mr. vice president, i know you're under a lot of duress... >> ( laughs ) >> ...to make up for lost ground, but i think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other. >> well, don't take all the four minutes, then. >> woodruff: the president was quick to hail that performance immediately after the debate. >> i thought joe biden was terrific tonight. i could not be prouder of him. i thought he made a very strong case. >> woodruff: republican ryan sounded upbeat about how he'd done at a diner this morning before leaving lexington, kentucky. >> i felt great about it. >> reporter: did you feel knocked around by him? >> no, it's what i expected. >> woodruff: and mitt romney prais
debate, i don't think there's any doubt that congressman ryan and i, governor romney and the president, we have a fundamentally different vision for america. and quite frankly a fundamentally different value set. >> woodruff: democrats had been down after president obama's performance last week, but the vice-president aggressively challenged every point ryan made, prompting this exchange. >> mr. vice president, i know you're under a lot of duress... >> ( laughs ) >>...
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when we look at the ryan-romney... excuse me, the romney-ryan team talking about this foreign policy mess, the unraveling as paul ryan referred to it, particularly including libya and the larger middle east policy, what do you see? what do you make of that? >> well, i'm afraid there is truth in the fact that the position of the united states in the middle east is unraveling. but one has to go back a number of years and ask what has set that process in motion? i'm afraid that the united states simply has fumbled over the years. the unique opportunity it had to shape a more stable and more peaceful middle east. >> brown: what do you mean by that? >> well, first of all, the israeli-palestinian peace issue. you know, today the middle east... the masses are stirring. every public opinion poll tells us the masses have a negative view of american position on that issue because they see the united states as failing to move the peace process forward. i'm afraid there is some truth to that conclusion. >> brown: walter mead, what
when we look at the ryan-romney... excuse me, the romney-ryan team talking about this foreign policy mess, the unraveling as paul ryan referred to it, particularly including libya and the larger middle east policy, what do you see? what do you make of that? >> well, i'm afraid there is truth in the fact that the position of the united states in the middle east is unraveling. but one has to go back a number of years and ask what has set that process in motion? i'm afraid that the united...
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now it's romney-ryan, or is it ryan-romney? either way, their theory has been tested. it failed. our economy failed. the middle class paid the price. your family paid the price. mitt romney just doesn't get it. ( cheers and applause ). but barack obama gets it. ( cheering ) he understands that when we invest in people, we're investing in our shared prosperity. and when we neglect that responsibility, we risk our promise as a nation. just a few years ago, families that had never asked for anything found themselves at risk of losing everything. and the dream my grandmother held, that work would be rewarded, that the middle class would be there, if not for her, then for her children, that dream was being crushed. but then president obama took office and he took action. when detroit was in trouble, president obama saved the auto industry and saved a million jobs. ( cheering ) seven presidents before him, republicans and democrats, tried to expand health care to all americans. president obama got it done. ( cheering ) he made a historic investment to lift our nation's public schools a
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the romney riem ryan a ryan as s service for medicare. it's a long time. and secondly that's what it is. secondly they're charging and i heard it again and again it will force seniors to pay $6,000 a year. that was a study done on obsolete 2011 program that has nothing to do with romney/ryan care. we're hearing deception from them. >> ifill: you have this argument for the next time on the floor but go ahead and answer the question. >> look, there is a fundamental difference between the parties on medicare. and one is whether you see the same mission for medicare as the universal healthcare plan for senior citizens or not, and what seniors have to pay for it. that's really where the debate is. >> woodruff: chicago mayor rahm emanuel. >> i will help the president when i can. >> woodruff: the man who can handle two jobs at once. at the podium now is bill butcher, he's the founder of the brewing company in alexandra, virginia. >> you know, i don't have time to pay much attention to politics because i'm too busy running my business. i think a lot of small busin
the romney riem ryan a ryan as s service for medicare. it's a long time. and secondly that's what it is. secondly they're charging and i heard it again and again it will force seniors to pay $6,000 a year. that was a study done on obsolete 2011 program that has nothing to do with romney/ryan care. we're hearing deception from them. >> ifill: you have this argument for the next time on the floor but go ahead and answer the question. >> look, there is a fundamental difference between...
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we need romney-ryan, and we need them now. [cheering and applause] and with your help, it's going to happen. thank you and god bless our great country. [cheering and applause] >> ifill: that was rob portman, the senator from ohio. interestingly enough, we're going to go to steve cohen from ohio, who has a machine company outside of columbus. ohio night. >> good evening. my name is steven cohen, and i am president of screen machine industries. a family owned manufacturer of construction and mining equipment located in the great buckeye state of ohio. [cheering and applause] and, yes, we did build this company. our country's nearly 30 million small businesses serve as the american backbone for job creation and product innovation, the opportunity to create new products and open new markets is the american dream. this capitalistic spirit has supported our economy since its founding. as a manufacturer, our products are the heartbeat of our business. we can't tolerate other companies stealing hard work without compensation. it can t
we need romney-ryan, and we need them now. [cheering and applause] and with your help, it's going to happen. thank you and god bless our great country. [cheering and applause] >> ifill: that was rob portman, the senator from ohio. interestingly enough, we're going to go to steve cohen from ohio, who has a machine company outside of columbus. ohio night. >> good evening. my name is steven cohen, and i am president of screen machine industries. a family owned manufacturer of...
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romney and ryan would put insurance companies back in control. now, barack obama was raised by kansas women. i know kansas women. they taught him the values of hard work and responsibility and fairness. that's why president obama believes that if you work hard and play by the rules, you deserve the security of health care. governor romney, congressman ryan and their republican colleagues say it's everyone for themselves, and that's fundamentally the choice in this election. between republicans who only fight for the favored few or a president who fights for the middle class. between nation whose politics play on the worst of our fears and a nation whose law reflects the best of our values. 47 years ago, my dad proudly watched president johnson sign medicare into law. that day president johnson said few people have the courage to stake reputation and position and the effort of a lifetime on such a cause when there are so few that share it. president obama is one of those people. a leader with uncommon compassion and uncommon courage, he's earned m
romney and ryan would put insurance companies back in control. now, barack obama was raised by kansas women. i know kansas women. they taught him the values of hard work and responsibility and fairness. that's why president obama believes that if you work hard and play by the rules, you deserve the security of health care. governor romney, congressman ryan and their republican colleagues say it's everyone for themselves, and that's fundamentally the choice in this election. between republicans...
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that's what you get from mitt romney and paul ryan. now, in a few weeks we will celebrate the 225th anniversary of our federal constitution. moments like that remind us that what makes america so great, what makes us exceptional is that throughout our history, in moments of crisis, be they economic or fiscal, military or spiritual, what makes america amazing has been that there have always been men and women of courage who think more about the future of their children and their grandchildren than they did about their own political careers. [applause] let this be one of those moments. let this be our time in history so that some day, some day we can tell our children and our grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better. let us tell them that we helped elect mitt romney and paul ryan to save america. [applause] thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome --. >> ifill: we're joined now by our entire group here, mark shields, david brooks, and we want to talk about that scott walker receptio
that's what you get from mitt romney and paul ryan. now, in a few weeks we will celebrate the 225th anniversary of our federal constitution. moments like that remind us that what makes america so great, what makes us exceptional is that throughout our history, in moments of crisis, be they economic or fiscal, military or spiritual, what makes america amazing has been that there have always been men and women of courage who think more about the future of their children and their grandchildren...
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the reason the president wants to staple ryan and romney together is to make -- put romney on the hook for every piece of specificity in the quite specific ryan budget so that he can say, answer for this, that and the other thing. the biggest thing of course being the changes in medicare. >> and barack obama aside, romney got caught up with embraced ryan so fulsomely because it was -- it shows that he can't quite get into the general election. because the wisconsin primary this week was what he was in. and paul ryan is from wisconsin. he needed paul ryan's endorsement. and so they were joined at the hip. so just shows the extent to which mitt romney continues to be in a primary battle even though everybody thinks he's going to be the nominee. gwen: how successful can the republican whoever it is nominee be targeterring the president -- the fear of obama's second term? how much is that central to what the -- what all these arguments are about? >> well, the argument that mitt romney made in front of the newspaper editors was that the president in his first two years did a lot of really a
the reason the president wants to staple ryan and romney together is to make -- put romney on the hook for every piece of specificity in the quite specific ryan budget so that he can say, answer for this, that and the other thing. the biggest thing of course being the changes in medicare. >> and barack obama aside, romney got caught up with embraced ryan so fulsomely because it was -- it shows that he can't quite get into the general election. because the wisconsin primary this week was...
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and ryan does help romney in some parts of the state. romney almost lost-- he barely won the march primary, and those voters that went for rick santorum in the rural and urban parts of ohio, it's thought maybe ryan could help romney with those voters gloo kay henderson in iowa, what about this medicare question we've within talking about? iowa is a state that has seen its economy suffer. >> the unemployment rate here has done a little uptick in the past month. in regards to the issue, the romney campaign is running an ad which essentially accuses of president of being a thief. the obama campaign has been running advertisements here trying to define mitt romney as some sort of robber baron who doesn't care about voters. so if you look at the campaign advertising, and what the candidates have been talking about on the stump here in iowa, it has appeared until today, this afternoon, that the candidates are trying to energize their base of voters, because it appears that iowa is among the purplest of states, perhaps still in this election cy
and ryan does help romney in some parts of the state. romney almost lost-- he barely won the march primary, and those voters that went for rick santorum in the rural and urban parts of ohio, it's thought maybe ryan could help romney with those voters gloo kay henderson in iowa, what about this medicare question we've within talking about? iowa is a state that has seen its economy suffer. >> the unemployment rate here has done a little uptick in the past month. in regards to the issue, the...
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on that level and you can see paul ryan having being the sort of person that mitt romney would have hired when he was at bain capital. >> woodruff: does this mean it improves romney's chances at winning? >> what does it mean in terms of the longer term. >> i don't think it durx judy. i think it makes the election a lot more choice than simply a referendum on barack obama which is what you ideally would like to have it. given the state of the economy, unemployment in the country and the doubts about the president's job rating. you want it to be a referendum on him. i think because paul ryan comes with a definition w a precise biography, with an established ideology and philosophy, something that mitt romney doesn't have, it makes it it a lot more of a choice election amount of and quite bluntly, i think that if i were running the republican campaign and thank goodness both for them and me that i'm not, i want it to be about the economy. i want it to be about jobs, 8% unemployment. i don't want it to be about medicare. >> woodruff: what about this idea, rich, that instead of the focus
on that level and you can see paul ryan having being the sort of person that mitt romney would have hired when he was at bain capital. >> woodruff: does this mean it improves romney's chances at winning? >> what does it mean in terms of the longer term. >> i don't think it durx judy. i think it makes the election a lot more choice than simply a referendum on barack obama which is what you ideally would like to have it. given the state of the economy, unemployment in the...
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mitt romney and congressman ryan want to take away the promise that makes medicare medicare. they want to give seniors a voucher that cap what is medicare will cover and then tell our seniors they're on their own for what's left that would cost our seniors thousands of dollars every year and if they don't have the money it could cost our seniors their lives. but that didn't stop romney and ryan from telling the american people that their plan won't hurt seniors. the fact is, it will. and president obama's plan will protect medicare and protect our seniors. (cheers and applause) facts are stubborn things! (applause) now, when congressman ryan got his turn he blamed president obama for an auto plant that closed under president george w. bush. remember him? here is the fact, congressman ryan: when president obama took office in january of 2009 the chrysler plant in belvedere, illinois, employed just 200 people. and today because president obama saved the auto industry that same chrysler plant is employing more than 4,000 american workers! (cheers and applause) now, there's somet
mitt romney and congressman ryan want to take away the promise that makes medicare medicare. they want to give seniors a voucher that cap what is medicare will cover and then tell our seniors they're on their own for what's left that would cost our seniors thousands of dollars every year and if they don't have the money it could cost our seniors their lives. but that didn't stop romney and ryan from telling the american people that their plan won't hurt seniors. the fact is, it will. and...
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gwen: and yet we've seen mitt romney and paul ryan continuing to talk about this every single day. which is interesting. because we are told that americans aren't voting on foreign policy issues. and yet here is one that won't go away. >> it's interesting also because this issue is -- is an issue that until quite recently, president obama had a huge lead against -- gwen: you were saying osama bin laden and the conversation would end. >> the polls do suggest they are chipping away at that. it's an interesting strategy, though, because as one republican strategist who's worried about it told me, when you start playing on those issues, you are playing on the commander in chief's turf. and the only time that that has ever really worked and made a difference in an election was with jimmy carter. gwen: and one of the things that joe biden was trying to do was to get back at that is to put the grinning and the smiling and the condescension was to try to say i know this guy. you can back up on this. and even on domestic issues, like the stimulus. which the republicans have always criticize
gwen: and yet we've seen mitt romney and paul ryan continuing to talk about this every single day. which is interesting. because we are told that americans aren't voting on foreign policy issues. and yet here is one that won't go away. >> it's interesting also because this issue is -- is an issue that until quite recently, president obama had a huge lead against -- gwen: you were saying osama bin laden and the conversation would end. >> the polls do suggest they are chipping away at...
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now paul ryan, medicare, romney's taxes. as long as the focus is on romney, it creates doubts about him. as long as he's been unable to ingratiate himself with the american public and to be accepted by them, even though the president isn't doing great as susan suggests, president obama has a better chance. >> ifill: why then if today's distraction provided a... frames this question for me. we spent the last week arguing about' medicare which usually isn't the kind of thing that allows to define the other guy necessarily especially when this seems to be a stand-off over who is going to... >> it's interesting. republicans have taken this head on and tried to take the offensive in medicare which we usually think of as a democrat issue. we had to do that with the pick of paul ryan as a running mate because he has a specific plan on medicare that they felt they had to defend and explain. they did succeed in putting the white house, president obama, a little on the defensive over what the affordable care act does to medicare. to t
now paul ryan, medicare, romney's taxes. as long as the focus is on romney, it creates doubts about him. as long as he's been unable to ingratiate himself with the american public and to be accepted by them, even though the president isn't doing great as susan suggests, president obama has a better chance. >> ifill: why then if today's distraction provided a... frames this question for me. we spent the last week arguing about' medicare which usually isn't the kind of thing that allows to...
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and that is what we will have in a romney ryan administration. >> holman: romney and ryan also accused the president of dismissing israel's concerns about iran's nuclear program. ryan said it amounts to "indifference bordering on contempt." negotiators in the week-old teachers strike in chicago now say they've achieved a framework for a deal. the school district and the teachers union will spend the weekend working out details, and the union will vote on sunday. that means some 350,000 students could return to school monday. neither side would specify what they've worked out on the contentious issues of pay and teacher evaluations. in afghanistan, a bus and truck collided today, killing at least 51 people. it happened in the east, in ghazni province, on a highway linking the capital, kabul, with kandahar. a local official said the cause of the collision was under investigation, but he did not rule out that it was triggered by an attack. the russian parliament today expelled a lawmaker who had turned against president vladimir putin. it was a new signal that a crackdown on dissent is in
and that is what we will have in a romney ryan administration. >> holman: romney and ryan also accused the president of dismissing israel's concerns about iran's nuclear program. ryan said it amounts to "indifference bordering on contempt." negotiators in the week-old teachers strike in chicago now say they've achieved a framework for a deal. the school district and the teachers union will spend the weekend working out details, and the union will vote on sunday. that means some...
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, jared bernstein, the president clearly trying to tie paul ryan with mitt romney. why not run at mitt romney and what mitt romney has said rather than.... >> i think it's a fair question. i think it's because mitt romney endorsed this vision. he called this, this budget, he said it was a marvelous budget. he said this is a budget i would want to adapt. something to that effect. i think that that really aligns him with this extremely stark and austere vision of the role of government in the lives of people who actually need help. >> woodruff: speaking of that, dan mitchell, we heard the president in effect separating paul ryan from... i mean, he talked about the record of president richard nixon. president george w. bush. suggesting that what paul ryan is suggesting is much farther right than even these other republican presidents, what they've done. >> that's because both nixon and bush were both big government interventionists. my biggest problem the obama is he's continuing the failed policies of bush. bush doubled the size of the federal government in just eight
, jared bernstein, the president clearly trying to tie paul ryan with mitt romney. why not run at mitt romney and what mitt romney has said rather than.... >> i think it's a fair question. i think it's because mitt romney endorsed this vision. he called this, this budget, he said it was a marvelous budget. he said this is a budget i would want to adapt. something to that effect. i think that that really aligns him with this extremely stark and austere vision of the role of government in...
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gwen: as paul ryan a great help to mitt romney as joe biden was at this time four years ago for barack obama? >> oh, yeah. i definitely think so. gwen: you do? his speech got some criticism for being selective in its facts, is what -- >> that's a whole other interesting dynamic of where we are in this race and that is do facts matter? watch at the white house or with the obama campaign the frustration that they feel because as the president, there's a feeling that we can have our campaign surrogates tell you some whoppers but the president is somewhat more wedded to something related to the facts. and they're concerned that the direction that the campaign has gone in both ways, directions has been what shall we say, whopper laden, right? and maybe it doesn't matter or we're seeing so many voters made up their minds. they already believe that they know how they're going to vote, that maybe that is what is feeding this idea of keep stoking those fires. gwen: now we have to talk about clint eastwood. why? because if we didn't, we would be the only people on television not talking about cl
gwen: as paul ryan a great help to mitt romney as joe biden was at this time four years ago for barack obama? >> oh, yeah. i definitely think so. gwen: you do? his speech got some criticism for being selective in its facts, is what -- >> that's a whole other interesting dynamic of where we are in this race and that is do facts matter? watch at the white house or with the obama campaign the frustration that they feel because as the president, there's a feeling that we can have our...
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romney and mr. ryan are two guys that can come along. see, i never thought that it was a good idea for attorneys to be president anyway because-- (applause) i think attorneys are so busy, you know, they're always taught to argue everything and weigh everything and weigh both sides. and they're always, you know, they're always devil's advocating this and bifurcating this and bifurcating that, you know, all that stuff. but i think it's maybe time, what do you think, for maybe a businessman, how about that. (cheers and applause) a stellar businessman, quote, unquote, a stellar businessman. and i think it's that time. and i think if you just kind of stepped aside and mr. romney can take over, you could still use the plane. though maybe a smaller one, not that big gas guzzler that you are driving around when are you going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. you're an ecological man, why would you want to drive that truck around. okay. well anyway, all right, i'm sorry. i can't do that to myself either. anyw
romney and mr. ryan are two guys that can come along. see, i never thought that it was a good idea for attorneys to be president anyway because-- (applause) i think attorneys are so busy, you know, they're always taught to argue everything and weigh everything and weigh both sides. and they're always, you know, they're always devil's advocating this and bifurcating this and bifurcating that, you know, all that stuff. but i think it's maybe time, what do you think, for maybe a businessman, how...
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whether there is a different mitt romney to really carry the fight. >> warner: susan, what do the romney-ryan team think it has to do with vice president biden to try to keep the momentum going? >> well... arner: and not become a target of all these questions about the ryan plan. >> you know, a debate where people said that republicans won, that would be great news for the romney team trying to build on this progress that they made since the last debate. because of course as andy knows better than anyone, findings that go your way quickly can go away quickly. it indicates a race in some flux. i think specifically they're going to want to be in a position to defend the attacks they know are coming especially on the issues of medicare and domestic spending because you can tie paul ryan to the paul ryan budget plan that has some things that will be controversial with voters including voters in swing states. >> warner: a quick final thought from you. to what degree to vice presidential debates shift the momentum of any campaign. >> hardly much at all. the famous debate we think about is benson an
whether there is a different mitt romney to really carry the fight. >> warner: susan, what do the romney-ryan team think it has to do with vice president biden to try to keep the momentum going? >> well... arner: and not become a target of all these questions about the ryan plan. >> you know, a debate where people said that republicans won, that would be great news for the romney team trying to build on this progress that they made since the last debate. because of course as...
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but -- but a romney ryan foreign policy would be anything but funny. everything president of both parties for 60 years has worked for nuclear arms control but not mitt romney. republican secretary of states from kissinger to baker, powell to rice, president bush, 71 united states senators all supported president obama's new start treaty, but not mitt romney. he has even blurted out the preposterous notion that russia is the number one geopolitical foe. folks, sarah palin said she could see russia from alaska. mitt romney talks like he has only seen russia by watching "rocky iv." i tell you. -- so here is the choice -- here is the choice in 2012, mitt romney out of touch at home, out of his depth aboard, and out of the mainstream, or barack obama a president giving new life and truth to america's indispenseible role in the world, a commander in chief who gives our troops the tools and training they need and more the honor and help they have earned when they come home. a man -- a man -- a man who will never ask other men and women to fight a war without
but -- but a romney ryan foreign policy would be anything but funny. everything president of both parties for 60 years has worked for nuclear arms control but not mitt romney. republican secretary of states from kissinger to baker, powell to rice, president bush, 71 united states senators all supported president obama's new start treaty, but not mitt romney. he has even blurted out the preposterous notion that russia is the number one geopolitical foe. folks, sarah palin said she could see...
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country that the paul ryan pick is supposed to be about, but they want to hear mitt romney present it. >> rose: can i argue the following, that that is up for grabs because the president can't do that again. i mean, he had an opportunity to do that in 2008 because he was-- he was a candidate that had not been written on, or became a vessel that people could pour all of their hopes into because there was not much to gain. he can't do, that the president can't, so there is an opportunity to somehow capture the optimism of the country. >> that raises a question of why mitt romney hasn't been able to do that. he has had all these opportunities. he has been running since 2008. this is not new to him. he ought to have been able to craft a speech and he certainly ought to be able to at the convention speech. this is a teleprompter speech. this is not an off-the-cuff remarks that mitt romney stipes fluffs. i think the the hardest thing for mitt romney was something dan talked about earlier, and that is the sense of a person who is fluid. there is so much attention on presidential campaigns an
country that the paul ryan pick is supposed to be about, but they want to hear mitt romney present it. >> rose: can i argue the following, that that is up for grabs because the president can't do that again. i mean, he had an opportunity to do that in 2008 because he was-- he was a candidate that had not been written on, or became a vessel that people could pour all of their hopes into because there was not much to gain. he can't do, that the president can't, so there is an opportunity to...
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shall nominee's budget plan as a way to, you know, really hit mitt romney and paul ryan saying that they'll dismantle medicare. so i could see this comment really coming into play... them using them to say they want to tax low-income people. >> ifill: does paul ryan's tough budget make it difficult for mitt romney to back too far away from an argument like this? >> it certainly does because a lot of the spending cuts that representative ryan has proposed would fall on low-income people. he wants to block grand medicaid. he wants to block grant food stamps. these would turn the funding over the states and completely change the scope of it from an entitlement program to something with limited funding. that would mean that fewer people could take advantage of it. >> ifill: going to be a very interesting argument to watch play out. nancy cook from national journal, roberton williams from the tax policy. thank you both very much. >> you're welcome. thank you. woodruff: look for a comment from romney's remarks. my interview with bob woodward will air soon. there's more politics coming up,
shall nominee's budget plan as a way to, you know, really hit mitt romney and paul ryan saying that they'll dismantle medicare. so i could see this comment really coming into play... them using them to say they want to tax low-income people. >> ifill: does paul ryan's tough budget make it difficult for mitt romney to back too far away from an argument like this? >> it certainly does because a lot of the spending cuts that representative ryan has proposed would fall on low-income...
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mitt romney and paul ryan will be up to the job on day one. [cheers and applause] like paul ryan, i'm from wisconsin, where republicans have done pretty well in recent years. well here's why. because we govern like we campaign. we made promises and we kept promises. that's what americans want. leaders of their word. well, president obama, as we all know, is a man of many words but he's not a man of his word. he broke his promise to cut the deficit in half. and he broke his promise to fix the economy. and adding insult to injury, he actually attacks success. this president looks down on american free enterprise. as speaker boehner just said, the president said if you got a business, you didn't build that. we do build it, right? [crowd cheering] that makes me think, that makes me think that barack obama has a problem with the american dream. i grew up in a place called cause kenosha, wisconsin. my dad was an electrician and he retired from the unified school district. you know when we drove through the town, he didn't point to that big beautiful
mitt romney and paul ryan will be up to the job on day one. [cheers and applause] like paul ryan, i'm from wisconsin, where republicans have done pretty well in recent years. well here's why. because we govern like we campaign. we made promises and we kept promises. that's what americans want. leaders of their word. well, president obama, as we all know, is a man of many words but he's not a man of his word. he broke his promise to cut the deficit in half. and he broke his promise to fix the...
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haven't had a chance to ask you about the romney choice of paul ryan, has that changed the dime snick. >> first of all i thought it was substantively heroic because ryan does give some-- my first reaction was political disaster for two reasons. why, house republicans are the most unpopular group in america. and he's a house republican. so i thought romney had to distance himself. two, medicare is a really popular program. i think it's a completely unsustainable program that has to be fundamentallically changed but it is really popular. so you are tying yourself to two losing issues. having said that, at least in the couple weeks since ryan has been picked, that nightmare scenario has not hurt romney, in part because one thing i didn't appreciate f people see romney as this flip-flopper who will just be for whatever is popular, picking ryan, going into that medicare moreas was actually a sign of some steal there. and so it sort of has hasn't been so bad and i think ryan is pretty effective. >> woodruff: like the democrats thought or many of them were saying that they thought the medica
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an avowed catholic, ryan is strongly anti-abortion, as is romney. women made up 54% of the vote four years ago, and favored obama slightly more than men did. the obama team sees another opening this year. >> i don't think the government, you know, should, should be in my bedroom, should be in my doctor's office, should be determining who i'm allowed to marry. >> woodruff: we caught up with mary mclean and a trio of other mothers of young children taking an exercise class in loudon county. three had voted for obama last time; and all shared her view on abortion. >> you shouldn't be able to dictate morality to people. i think it should be a choice, and i think everybody should be able to choose for themselves. >> woodruff: but the main issue these ex-urban moms say is on their minds is the economy. and two of the three who supported obama in '08 say they still aren't decided this time. >> one thing that interests me from the romney side was he seems to have an interesting way of thinking about letting people savings and investments. but i don't know t
an avowed catholic, ryan is strongly anti-abortion, as is romney. women made up 54% of the vote four years ago, and favored obama slightly more than men did. the obama team sees another opening this year. >> i don't think the government, you know, should, should be in my bedroom, should be in my doctor's office, should be determining who i'm allowed to marry. >> woodruff: we caught up with mary mclean and a trio of other mothers of young children taking an exercise class in loudon...
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among its findings, only 51% know the romney-ryan plan would preserve traditional medicare for those 55 and older and retain it as an option for those now younger than that. only about half knew that mitt romney would keep the bush tax cuts in place. fewer than half knew that romney and not obama had promised to increase defense spending. only 23% were aware that payroll taxes had decreased during obama's term in office. only slightly more than half knew that paul ryan is the republican vice presidential nominee. the director of the annenberg center, kathleen hall jamieson, our master media decoder is back with us. welcome. >> thank you. >> so who's responsible for the widespread unawareness or ignorance that you report in your survey? is it the candidate, the media, or the voter? >> it's all three. and fortunately, we have the opportunity with presidential debates to do something that reliably increases knowledge. we've been studying presidential debates for a long time as a scholarly community. and to our surprise, we consistently find that those who watch debates, regardless of th
among its findings, only 51% know the romney-ryan plan would preserve traditional medicare for those 55 and older and retain it as an option for those now younger than that. only about half knew that mitt romney would keep the bush tax cuts in place. fewer than half knew that romney and not obama had promised to increase defense spending. only 23% were aware that payroll taxes had decreased during obama's term in office. only slightly more than half knew that paul ryan is the republican vice...
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. >> reporter: on the other side, republican senator ron johnson had joined up with romney-ryan campaign bus. >> this thing is going to go right down to the wire. i'm cautiously optimistic about it. >> reporter: in fact, barack obama won this state handily in 2008 he was well ahead here this year until the first debate, when mitt romney gained ground. >> when mitt romney led bain, hundreds of plants, factories, and stores were shuttered. workers saw their wages slashed, their jobs sent overseas. >> look at the evidence of the last four years. under the president's policies, middle income americans have been buried. hay ear just being crushed. >> reporter: for local citizens that's meant a flood of ads, stuffed mailboxes, thousands of phone calls and knocks on their doors. by one recent count, this area is the most saturated political market in the nation. the national campaign for the presidency has come down to a battle for a relatively small number of swing counties and brown county here is one of them for the competing parties, everything now depends on organization, the so-called gro
. >> reporter: on the other side, republican senator ron johnson had joined up with romney-ryan campaign bus. >> this thing is going to go right down to the wire. i'm cautiously optimistic about it. >> reporter: in fact, barack obama won this state handily in 2008 he was well ahead here this year until the first debate, when mitt romney gained ground. >> when mitt romney led bain, hundreds of plants, factories, and stores were shuttered. workers saw their wages slashed,...
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that's the hashtag debates or hashtag romney/ryan 2012. and you can buy that term and the campaign is doing this. and that means that then you can promote who you want to promote. >> this week what the obama campaign is heavily promoting with that phrase "binders full of women" this was mitt romney making a comment about having binders full of women. some people have done this on their own but the president has personally tweeted or somebody on his behalf, mitt romney won't say whether he'll stand up for equal pay but he likes binders full of women. >> the world is shifting under our feet here so i'm wondering if we know whether any of this works. >> yes, now that we know that we can do this, someone can pay because of what i'm interested in to have something move to the top of my queue so it's more likely to catch my eye. do we know whether these things, people starting their own web pages, circulating these fun photos and collages that people put together, whether it changes anybody's mind, whether it gets them thinking about the issues?
that's the hashtag debates or hashtag romney/ryan 2012. and you can buy that term and the campaign is doing this. and that means that then you can promote who you want to promote. >> this week what the obama campaign is heavily promoting with that phrase "binders full of women" this was mitt romney making a comment about having binders full of women. some people have done this on their own but the president has personally tweeted or somebody on his behalf, mitt romney won't say...
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romney and ryan are in denial. >> ifill: and republican paul ryan flew to colorado. >> mitt romney and i are not going to run away from these problems. we're going to run to these problems to solve these problems because they get out of our control. that's what leaders do. we're not going to kick the can down the road. we're going to lead. i'll tell you what. we're not going to spend the next four years blaming other people for our problems. we're going to take responsibility. >> ifill: just 15 days left. both campaigns are burning through their considerable cash reserves. the democrats spend $111 million in september, mostly on ads, leaving the president and his party with $149 million cash on hand. romney and the republican national committee meanwhile spent $55 million last month and had $183 million left at the end of september. here with us now to preview what to expect tonight are syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. if i had said to either of you six weeks ago that everything in this election would be so tight that it would depend on the
romney and ryan are in denial. >> ifill: and republican paul ryan flew to colorado. >> mitt romney and i are not going to run away from these problems. we're going to run to these problems to solve these problems because they get out of our control. that's what leaders do. we're not going to kick the can down the road. we're going to lead. i'll tell you what. we're not going to spend the next four years blaming other people for our problems. we're going to take responsibility....
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absolutely look for him after romney's eight years a presidency. >> ryan in 2020? >> absolutely. >> the future president? kevin bartels has met him several times and he thinks so. >> this is a man to watch for the future definitely. after his speech, a lot of people came and said they just saw the new ronald reagan. the united states is going to know paul ryan after tonight, and the world will know paul ryan after november. >> his views on government has made him part of the government intellectual elite. his budget plan is now party policy, and that excites the man behind one of the group's bankrolling the effort to get barack obama out of the white house. >> what he does is about shaping this battle of ideas. we are running against a president who is not running on his record, not running on his record to transform entitlement programs, not running on his plan to bring down the debt. in the and, if we have ideas, we have some energy they do not. >> mitt romney has chosen paul ryan to be his vice-presidential candidate. >> in an ad released to coincide with brian'
absolutely look for him after romney's eight years a presidency. >> ryan in 2020? >> absolutely. >> the future president? kevin bartels has met him several times and he thinks so. >> this is a man to watch for the future definitely. after his speech, a lot of people came and said they just saw the new ronald reagan. the united states is going to know paul ryan after tonight, and the world will know paul ryan after november. >> his views on government has made him...
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in part, what you said is true, ryan is currently to the right of romney. and a lot of folks saw this as a place where the tea party activists and the party, but in fact you have to remember the home state of paul ryan which is wisconsin, and was recent events and the past couple of years with the recall contest of the governor, i think this is strategic move. you know, even was thinking it would be ohio where we would choose the candidate from that state. >> ryan went to college there, there's a little bit of a bank shot. >> there's a little bit. but also, you know, ryan has the reputation for being someone whose really into policy, he has program ideas. and it gives a little bit of meat to what romney's been missing so far. i think it's a good compliment to the team. >> yeah, and i think it's a result of the polarization of political parties. since ronald reagan, republics have tended to the move to the right with their vice presidential picks. dan quail was a reach to the conservative by george h.w. bush, chaney and palen. >> interesting, let's take a ph
in part, what you said is true, ryan is currently to the right of romney. and a lot of folks saw this as a place where the tea party activists and the party, but in fact you have to remember the home state of paul ryan which is wisconsin, and was recent events and the past couple of years with the recall contest of the governor, i think this is strategic move. you know, even was thinking it would be ohio where we would choose the candidate from that state. >> ryan went to college there,...